Cuisine in exile is both a great celebration, and marked with particular nostalgia and sadness. For us it was it was the truest and surest connection, but also a constant reminder of our difficult exile.

Constitutional amendments and recent reforms in intelligence and security in Algeria are indeed substantial, if not revolutionary.

Frederic Brenner does not think small. In 1996, he posed prominent Jews: Ed Koch, Roy Lichtenstein, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ruth Westheimer, among them, in a labyrinth on Ellis Island. For his Diaspora project, he traveled the world looking for Jews in unlikely locales.

No single person is accountable for Afghanistan and the state of its people. But every one of us is accountable for the perceptions that directly affect how the country moves forward.